The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.
AMBROSE BIERCEA wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
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Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
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Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box.
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Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage.
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History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
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April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.
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LIFE, n. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay. We live in daily apprehension of its loss; yet when lost it is not missed.
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Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
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Forgetfulness – a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
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Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man – who has no gills.
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Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.
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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
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You don’t have to be stupid to be a Christian, but it probably helps.
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Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.
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LAWYER, n. One skilled in circumvention of the law.
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MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.
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